ChrisVJ says:
No US museum is without a Curtiss of some sort, (or two or three, )
The McMinnville Curtiss is a Robin - a late one with the (Continental?) radial. My dad soloed in a Robin in 1930, although it had a WWI surplus OX5 V8 water-cooled engine. All of 80 HP, although with a prop well-matched to the low airspeed and RPM.
But engine failure was not merely a training exercise - The OX5 had a single magneto and external valve rockers, so there was plenty of realtime practice in forced landings. This practice stuck with Dad pretty well, because on his very last flight 72 years later, he had carb ice on downwind leg and landed dead stick - "no big deal!"
